http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. At the end of 2012 the German Soccer League's paper on safety was adopted. It envisages, among other things, improving video surveillance in stadiums. The second-generation Vigilant Eye System can help achieve this aim. This enhanced product from Fraunhofer FIT uses synchronized fixed surveillance cameras and rapid zoom cameras which provide detailed images to clearly identify culprits. Specialized image analysis algorithms allow the system to automatically detect the use of flares at an early stage and pick out other salient events. The system points out critical situations to surveillance personnel and automatically records high-resolution video footage that can be used in evidence. http://phys.org/news280572763.html Technology Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:52:57 EST news280572763 Searching for video recordings regularly pushes search engines to their limit. The truth of the matter is that purely automatic algorithms are not enough; user knowledge has to be harnessed, too. Now, researchers are making automated engines smarter. http://phys.org/news276762510.html Technology Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:28:52 EST news276762510 Scientists have developed a new method for studying parasite numbers in the stomachs of individual seabirds in the wild. The technique enables the recording of video footage of worms inside seabird stomachs and is an important step forward in understanding the impact of parasites on seabird populations. The research is published today (13 December 2012) in the scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. http://phys.org/news274617476.html Biology Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:38:06 EST news274617476 Digital cameras and camcorders deliver high resolution film sequences that are several gigabytes in size. These can take several minutes to transfer wirelessly to your home computer via Bluetooth. Now there is a speedy alternative: The "multi-gigabit communication module" is six times faster than a USB cable. http://phys.org/news268999743.html Technology Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:09:09 EST news268999743 A proposed dam that would flood part of a national park in western Thailand represents a "significant new threat" to the kingdom's tigers, wildlife group WWF warned on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news265457770.html Biology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:16:18 EST news265457770 Google has gotten the go-ahead from Lithuania for its popular, if at times controversial, Street View application, an add-on to Google Maps, a company official said Thursday. http://phys.org/news258279399.html Technology Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:16:45 EST news258279399 (Phys.org) -- On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his camera on Earth. Video footage from that night is now revealing breathtaking images of Earth with meteors ablating -- or burning up -- in the atmosphere. http://phys.org/news256807257.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 May 2012 08:21:05 EST news256807257 (Phys.org) -- NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created sonic booms that were heard over a wide area at 7:51 a.m. PDT Sunday, April 22, 2012. http://phys.org/news254643820.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:23:52 EST news254643820 A major river in India's northeast that originates in Tibet has suddenly dried up, triggering speculation that China might be responsible, a local official told AFP on Thursday. http://phys.org/news249798863.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:50:02 EST news249798863 From the Gmail Man, who peeks into people's private mail, to the VMware salesman stuck in the '70s, Microsoft's marketing campaigns have become quite pointed in the past year. http://phys.org/news249242107.html Technology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:55:15 EST news249242107 Incredible camera trap video footage from the forests of Thailand have given conservationists confirmation that anti-poaching efforts in that country are paying off, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. http://phys.org/news243611363.html Biology Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:49:35 EST news243611363 North Korea's main government website has begun adding icons for users to post its statements fiercely criticising the United States and South Korea on popular social networks including Facebook. http://phys.org/news240467357.html Technology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:29:35 EST news240467357 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, there was news from video provider Qumu of their discomforting survey that at least half of Americans would use smartphones to secretly spy on others. Now there is rattling news that spy software can easily do that kind of job. The software can reveal what others are texting in their personal emails or text messages sent forth on their smartphones just by the snooper using a smartphone camera or advanced camera like a digital SLR that shoots HD video, which could read a screen up to 60 metres away. http://phys.org/news239594632.html Technology Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:10:01 EST news239594632 (PhysOrg.com) -- Would you like to participate in NASA's analog research program? Interested in helping scientists pinpoint where to look for signs of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe? Now you can, with an exciting new citizen science website called MAPPER (getmapper.com) that was launched in conjunction with the Pavilion Lake Research Project's 2011 field season. http://phys.org/news236427228.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:13:59 EST news236427228 Recent video footage from a survey on a group of critically endangered Amur leopards in the Russian Far East has yielded unexpectedly positive results, giving evidence that some wild groups of the big cat are showing clear signs of a tendency towards population growth, says WWF Russia. http://phys.org/news229768836.html Biology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:41:00 EST news229768836 This May new and improved search capabilities were introduced on the ARD Mediathek portal. Visitors to the website can now target their searches for TV and radio content more specifically. Information can also be extracted directly from video footage. All thanks to software from Fraunhofer. http://phys.org/news226751345.html Technology Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:29:59 EST news226751345 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is set to begin selling a professional-grade monitor that will contain the largest number of commercial organic light-emitting diodes in a single screen produced to date. The monitor, which was designed for the TV and film production industries, is set to go on sale on May 1. They are expected to be used in locations such as editing bays, satellite trucks and broadcasting control rooms. The OLED screen will have a 25-inch screen. A second model, one that features a smaller 17-inch screen, is expected to go on sale on the first of July. http://phys.org/news217178017.html Electronics Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:14:21 EST news217178017 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hugs and kisses exchanged under the mistletoe are among the human interactions which can now be automatically recognized by computers from video footage, thanks to new research. http://phys.org/news212230994.html Technology Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:29 EST news212230994 You know when you're watching a pirated film downloaded from the Internet -- there's no mistaking the fuzzy footage, or the guy in the front row getting up for popcorn. Despite the poor quality, pirated video is a serious problem around the world. Criminal copyright infringement occurs on a massive scale over the Internet, costing the film industry -- and the U.S. economy -- billions of dollars annually. http://phys.org/news212149455.html Technology Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:24:30 EST news212149455 (PhysOrg.com) -- Intel revealed their aircraft-style black box last week at their research showcase in Santa Clara, California. The device can send video footage of driver's behavior during an accident to the police and insurance company. http://phys.org/news197564478.html Technology Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:02:18 EST news197564478 (PhysOrg.com) -- The inner feelings of people who falsely claim to care about the environment can be exposed by understanding their body language, according to a new book. http://phys.org/news195236053.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:30:02 EST news195236053 Augmented reality is an emerging discipline that uses handheld devices to superimpose digital data on the real world: If, say, you're in Paris and point your phone at the Eiffel Tower, the tower's image would pop up on-screen, along with, perhaps, information about its history or the hours that it's open. With a TV enhancement called Surround Vision, however, researchers at MIT's Media Lab are bringing the same technology into the living room. http://phys.org/news190274081.html Technology Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:57:53 EST news190274081 New video footage of a virus infecting cells is challenging what researchers have long believed about how viruses spread, suggesting that scientists may be able to create new drugs to tackle some viruses. http://phys.org/news183304379.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:00:04 EST news183304379 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild, Oxford University scientists report. http://phys.org/news182434830.html Biology Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:21:07 EST news182434830 A day after the Pentagon acknowledged that Iraqi militants had used cheap software to intercept US drone feeds, a new report on Friday said senior military officials had dismissed that risk in 2004. http://phys.org/news180345433.html Technology Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:10:02 EST news180345433 The US military has fixed a problem that allowed Iraqi militants to use cheap software to intercept the video feeds of US-operated drones, a defense official said on Thursday. http://phys.org/news180275339.html Technology Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:01:13 EST news180275339 (PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city could take a cell-phone photo of an unmarked monument and immediately find out what it was. And an Internet image search on, say, "Shakespeare" would pull up pictures of Shakespeare, not pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie Shakespeare in Love. Though object recognition is one of the major research topics in computer vision, MIT researchers may have found a way to make it much more practical. http://phys.org/news174646349.html Technology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:07 EST news174646349 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the have found that fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened. http://phys.org/news172136058.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:50:01 EST news172136058 (AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there. http://phys.org/news167323588.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:46:51 EST news167323588 Researchers studying the nervous control of nematode mating behavior have produced video footage of a male worm preparing to mate with a hermaphrodite. http://phys.org/news165146102.html Biology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:55:23 EST news165146102